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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	That's good to hear
	Date:	5/8/2012 4:47:14 PM

I wasn't sure if you thought I was referring to you or other like minded conservative independents that are sick of RINO's as I definitely was not. As for the two-party system I actually think it is much better than multi-party systems like you see in so many countries. What happens in these countries is two fold.

First, if you have two parties that are conservative leaning and one that is liberal all too often you end up with the liberal because the conservative vote is split. We saw this with Ross Perot. Can also happen the other way as we saw with Nader and Gore in 2000. I would rather see a head to head competition.

The second issue is when it comes to Congress, if you have multiple parties they have to come together to form ruling coalitions. It is usually the worst kind of sausage making that I personally prefer happen before the job of governing begins, ie., at least with our system we know in advance what we are getting when we go to the ballot box (as much as is possible anyway) versus finding out after the election as the governing coalitions are formed. As little as we know about what we are getting before hand it is even worse when all these strange bedfellows come together after all sorts of horse trading, promises, bribes, extortion, etc.

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Oblamer's divide and conquer strategy - MartiniMan - 5/8/2012 11:28:39 AM

Oblamer's divide and conquer strategy - Summer Lover - 5/8/2012 11:41:42 AM

So-called independents are who elected Obama - MartiniMan - 5/8/2012 2:03:28 PM

No offense taken - Summer Lover - 5/8/2012 4:21:51 PM

That's good to hear - MartiniMan - 5/8/2012 4:47:14 PM

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